The top 10 developments from BYU's spring camp

Yes, it's just one player getting hurt and yes, Trammell had yet to play, let alone complete even a single practice session when he tore his ACL — but his injury is big nonetheless. BYU simply doesn't have a lot of options at the cornerback position and Trammell's season-ending injury dealt a significant blow to the team's ability to effectively replace Preston Hadley at boundary corner.

Trammell had shown enough during offseason workouts to indicate great potential at the position, but that potential will now have to be realized in 2014. Coaches indicate that senior Mike Hague will now likely man the boundary corner spot short of someone else stepping up.

Nice report. On a previous article, a poster opined that Ammon Olson was
wresting the number one focus away from Taysom. I thought at the time, and
still wonder, any corroboration on whether Ammon is showing particularly well?

Because it seems to me the number one spot is Taysom's to lose,
recovery notwithstanding, and if Ammon is in the thick of it, then he must be
showing exceptionally well.

Brandon Gurney, you always do a great job reporting on BYU. Nicely done. I
wish the DNews had someone similar covering the Utes or wish the Trib had
someone as good as Jay Drew covering the Utes. Barring serious injuries, the
Cougars look to be better on offense and possibly not quite as good on defense.
Should be an interesting year.

I would add #11: Robert Anae has shown
himself to have no skills in dealing with the media.

Contrary to the previous comment, I think Robert Anae has skills dealing with
the media, just not the kind RBN thinks he should have. Anae seems to not have a
lot of patience or tolerance for stupid questions. Maybe that is a lack of
"skill" when it comes to media relations but I see it as using a
different skill early on so he won't get stupid questions in the future.

All Robert is doing is assuring that he'll be treated unsympathetically in
the media if his offense struggles. If the offense is successful, then he
won't have to worry about it.

So Nellie, how do you think the
world would view the LDS church if President Hinckley had taken Coach
Anae's approach when he was on 60 minutes with Mike Wallace? I keep
hearing that BYU's football program should be an extension of the four-fold
mission of the church. How does Coach Anae's "different skill"
with the media correlate to the church's mission?

The reporter could probably care less about the questions he asks...however, the
fans love the insights gained from many types of questions. Anae needs to be
nice...period. This issue was part of the team problems during his last stay.
Many players could not stand him. Why would it be different? Why can't
the man just be nice???

I don't understand Mike Hague playing at corner, and why any one would see
him as an option. This is not his natural position and seems like a a disaster
in my opinion. Nothing against him, but this position really worries me.

I'd much rather read articles like this than the multiple articles on
uniforms and apparel. Hopefully there will be a part 2, covering some other
positions, and who may be in the two deep.

Who are the back-ups at
middle and outside linebacker?How is the competition for #2 QB?What's going on with the punting game?Who's winning the battle
at TE?Now that it's been a couple of weeks, how is the up-tempo
offense working?

There's been a lot of coverage about Anae and
Holladay. How are the other new offensive coordinators doing and fitting in?

Coach Anae could see that some of the media had a cetrain agenda when asking
their questions. So he answered, "What is the purpose of your
question?" That, I believe, is to get them to think about it before they
asked their questions, why were they asking certain questions. If they think
before asking, some of the questions whose answers are obvious, perhaps will not
be asked. The media needs to stop asking questions that invite controversy.
The media seems to thrive on controversary, which breeds infighting among the
different groups of people. Just my thoughts on the subject.